Naked Student Shot by Campus Police at University of South Alabama

A tragic story from the campus of the University of South Alabama is leaving many people with more questions than answers. The deceased has been identified as Gilbert Thomas Collar, an 18-year-old freshman from Wetumpka, Alabama. Collar was found making a raucous outside of the campus police department. He was nude at the time.

The incident began when the officer went outside the police station to investigate the source of a “loud banging noise,” the statement said. He was “confronted by a muscular, nude man who was acting erratically” and who proceeded to chase the police officer and to challenge him. The officer drew his weapon, retreated, and ordered the student to stop, the statement said. When he did not, the officer shot him dead. The local police and district attorney’s office will investigate.

Questions are rolling in about the officer’s decision to use lethal force against someone who was clearly not carrying a weapon. Arguments that a nude man poses little threat are valid despite his aggressive behavior. You’d think a baton or stun gun would do the trick, but people more adept to situations like this than I will ultimately decide if the officer’s use of force is justified or not.

I believe it’s safe to speculate Collar was under the influence of something, be it alcohol or drugs of some sort. Hopefully his family will receive the answers they’re seeking. Very sad story.

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Fucking pussy campus cops. Undoubtedly comparable to STDs as suggested by RageTheory. Terrible that some poor kid had to die so a jergoff rent-a-cop could squeeze his first boob after wetting himself. Bag a sand motherfucker

You must go to a shitty school if you think they are rent-a-cops. Most (if not all, especially big universities) campus police are SWAT trained and have a higher payroll than regular PD? They aren’t going to higher rent-a-cop to protect students from a mass shooter numbnuts.

They don’t call in campus PD to deal with a campus shooter. They call in real SWAT teams with real guns and equiptment. What the fuck school do you go to that your campus rent-a-cops are special forces trained killers?

^ Exactly. Ha FratMuscle yeah I just caught that. Anyway, I go to a big fucking school that requires a lot of police. Why would they sit back and take the time to call a SWAT team and wait for everyone to die? They are all SWAT trained and carry a shitload of high powered weapons for an immediate response.

The students behavior was consistent with someone under the influence of PCP. PCP can give the user almost “superhuman strength” and unreal pain threshold. He had taken LSD, so even with a TASER or baton may not have stopped this kid.

Deadly force can be used to respond to the threat of death OR great bodily harm.

A person obviously under the influence of a heavy hallucinogen; who has already attacked two other people in a car and tried to bite a woman, then chased after a police office who retreated >50 ft around a building, warrants deadly force.

Sucks this kid had to die, but he played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.